In order to run your android unit tests automatically on external virtual server after each git commit you need a continuous integration system. There are a couple of good services e.g. jenkins and travis out there. But how do you use them? Here is one way for travis. You can start off by forking android-maven-example and adapt it to your own project. Maven’s package manager ability let’s you download and install all dependency packages. In example you also have several maven goals pre-defined. Most important ones are install – installing to a device or emulator, package – creating a jar of your libs and clean.

Now the automated tests are setup and you only need to make an account on https://travis-ci.org/ and turn on all the repositories which you want to let test.

The android maven example travis file is a bit outdated however. Android has been added as a first class citizen. So your travis.yml file could look like this: